(it’s incredibly wasteful, for example, to pay a highly trained professional to send e-mail messages and attend meetings for thirty hours a week),
I think what he's pushing may only be true 60% of the time ... Emails and meetings can be very functional, like if you're the decider on many things, and you lay out structured deep thinking in emails that others actually listen to.
Also he's never read an email in the style of Colin MacLeod, a psychologist in Australia, who after a month of not responding practically writes you a publishable theory paper into your inbox.
